Pending funding, the National Institute of Health (NIH) plans to launch the Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI) program. Collaboratively managed by the NIH Common Fund, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, the National Eye Institute, the National Human Genome Research Institute, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, and the National Library of Medicine, the program seeks to provide comprehensive, high-quality and ethically sourced datasets to catalyze the widespread use of AI in the biomedical and behavioral research communities. AI has the ability to transform the biomedical and behavioral science fields. Possible applications include informing clinical decision making, monitoring and predicting health needs in real time and […]

What if we could link the Framingham Heart Study (NHLBI) with Alzheimer’s health data (NIH) to better understand the correlative effects in cardiovascular health with aging and dementia? What if journal articles could directly link to repository data sets and the software used for the analysis of those same data? The number of possible discoveries could increase. The proliferation of data, and the accompanying computing resources and new algorithms, brings new opportunities for discovery, as well as new challenges. This is especially important during our current health crisis. This is what the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is hoping to do through their Strategic Plan for Data Science – modernize […]

The following is from Sonynka Ngosso from the Office of Strategic Coordination at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announcing their new STRIDES (Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability Initiative) initiative.  Dear Colleagues, Today NIH launched a new initiative to harness the power of commercial cloud computing and provide NIH biomedical researchers access to the most advanced, cost-effective computational infrastructure, tools, and services available.  The STRIDES (Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability Initiative) Initiative counts Google Cloud as its first industry partner. In line with NIH’s first-ever Data Science Strategic Plan released in June, STRIDES will establish additional innovative public-private partnerships to broaden access to services and tools, including training for researchers […]

The following is from Sonynka Ngosso from the Office of Strategic Coordination at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announcing the new Big Data to Knowledge Reserouces Page.  Dear Colleagues,   Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) grantees developed a series of resources for the biomedical research and data science communities to use big data to answer biomedical research questions. Under current efforts to make the products of BD2K research usable, discoverable, and disseminated to the biomedical research community, the NIH Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC) released a webpage with direct hyperlinks to the resources developed through BD2K funding (https://commonfund.nih.gov/bd2k/resources).   The BD2K resource page will be updated periodically and populated with new resources as they become available. Please […]

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently released the following letter to the community announcing its Strategic Plan for Data Science.  Dear Colleagues, The National Institutes of Health (NIH) released its first-ever Strategic Plan for Data Science to capitalize on the opportunities presented by advances in data science.  The plan describes NIH’s overarching goals, strategic objectives, and implementation tactics for promoting the modernization of the NIH-funded biomedical data science ecosystem. We are grateful for the input from the community and the public received from the Request for Information, which was incorporated into the final plan. Over the course of the next year, NIH will begin implementing its strategy, with some elements of the […]

Check out the following updates from Data Science at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Important this week: Big Data Science with the BD2K-LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center – MOOC on Coursera. November 27, 2017, 12am – 12am. Learn various methods of analysis including unsupervised clustering, gene-set enrichment analysis, interactive data visualization, and supervised machine learning with application to data from the Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signature (LINCS) program, and other relevant Big Data from high content molecular omics data and phenotype profiling of mammalian cells. The BD2K Guide to the Fundamentals of Data Science: Data Science Needs for Biomedical Research. Ian Foster, University of Chicago. December 1, 2017, 9am – 10am. For more information, please visit […]